2005–06 Vyshcha Liha

Vyshcha Liha

Season	2005–06
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk
Relegated	Volyn Lutsk, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Champions League	Shakhtar Donetsk (3rd Qualifying Round) Dynamo Kyiv (2nd Qualifying Round)
UEFA Cup	Chornomorets Odessa (2nd Qualifying Round) Metalurh Zaporizhya (2nd Qualifying Round)
Intertoto Cup	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd Round)
Matches played	241
Goals scored	554 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	(15) - Brandão Emmanuel Okoduwa
Biggest home win	(6:0) - Shakhtar-Illichivets (7:1) Dynamo-Volyn
Biggest away win	(0:6) - Metalist-Dnipro
Highest scoring	(3:6) - Metalurh Z.-Kharkiv
Average attendance	8,016
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha season was the fifteenth since its establishment.

The season started on July 12, 2005 with six games of the first round. The last day of the competition was May 10, 2006. However, because the top two teams have finished with equal amount of points, it was decided to conduct a decisive game between them, which was named as the Golden Match. The game took place soon upon the conclusion of the regular season on May 14. The winner of the championship final became Shakhtar Donetsk that managed to defeat Dynamo Kyiv 2:1 and for the first time winning its second consecutive title and third over all. The top scorers competition was also tied between two foreigners Brandão from Brazil and Emmanuel Okoduwa from Nigeria. Both players won their individual award scoring 15 goals.

Both Shakhtar and Dynamo lost only once Shakhtar at home to Dynamo, while Dynamo lost its only game at home to Dnipro. Both Shakhtar and Dynamo also finished 30 points away from the closest trailing team in the standings. A good season had FC Illichivets Mariupol tying for the fourth together with FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Also could be left unnoticed the big return of the Odessa sailors that finally earn their next set of medals for the first time since returning to premiers. Out of the newly promoted teams a good performance showed FC Stal Alchevsk that were just a point shy to stay among the top 10.

Both clubs from the Western Ukraine, FC Volyn Lutsk and FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod, were forced into relegation due to their poor performance.

Teams

Promoted

These two teams were promoted from 2004-05 Ukrainian First League at the start of the season:

• FC Stal Alchevsk : champion of Persha Liha
• FC Kharkiv : runner-up of Persha Liha as FC Arsenal Kharkiv

Replaced

The following two teams were relegated last season:

• FC Obolon Kyiv - 15th place
• FC Borysfen Boryspil - 16 place

Renamed

• FC Vorskla Poltava before the season carried the name of FC Vorskla-Naftogaz Poltava

Location map

Dynamo

Arsenal

Dnipro

Illichivets

Karpaty

Kryvbas

Metalist
Khakriv

Volyn

Stal

Metalurh D.

Shakhtar

Tavriya

Vorskla

Zakarpattia

Chornomorets

Locations of team home grounds in Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Comments
1	Shakhtar Donetsk (C)	30	23	6	1	64	14	+50	75	CL 3rd Qualifying Round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	23	6	1	68	20	+48	75	CL 2nd Qualifying Round
3	Chornomorets Odessa	30	13	6	11	36	31	+5	45	UC 2nd Qualifying Round
4	Illychivets Mariupol	30	12	7	11	30	34	−4	43
5	Metalist Kharkiv	30	12	7	11	35	42	−7	43
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	11	10	9	33	23	+10	43	IC 2nd Qualifying Round
7	Tavriya Simferopol	30	11	6	13	29	31	−2	39
8	Metalurh Zaporizhya	30	11	6	13	32	40	−8	39	UC 2nd Qualifying Round
9	Metalurh Donetsk	30	10	9	11	35	35	0	39
10	Vorskla Poltava	30	9	10	11	28	34	−6	37
11	Stal Alchevsk	30	9	9	12	26	39	−13	36
12	Arsenal Kyiv	30	9	8	13	31	39	−8	35
13	FC Kharkiv	30	9	6	15	29	36	−7	33
14	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30	9	6	15	27	35	−8	33
15	Volyn Lutsk (R)	30	9	6	15	31	45	−14	33	Persha Liha
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (R)	30	3	6	21	17	53	−36	20	Persha Liha

Final match

FC Shakhtar Donetsk v FC Dynamo Kyiv

2006-05-14 18:00 LST

FC Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Marica  59' Aghahowa  100'	Report	Rodolfo  79'

Metalurh Stadium, Kryvyi Rih Attendance: 29,734 Referee: Ľ. Micheľ (Slovakia), (FIFA)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 35 Shust DF 33 Srna DF 27 Chyhrynsky DF 3 Hübschman  58'  91' DF 26 Rat MF 36 Elano  21'  73' MF 4 Tymoshchuk (c) MF 18 Lewandowski MF 7 Fernandihno FW 29 Marica  59'  80' FW 25 Brandao  118' Substitutes: MF 6 Duljaj  73'  120' DF 8 Leonardo DF 13 Shevchuk DF 14 Stoican  91' GK 16 Laštůvka FW 17 Aghahowa  80'  100' FW 20 Bielik Manager: Mircea Lucescu

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Shovkovsky (c) DF 3 Fedorov FW 5 Rebrov  101' FW 9 Kleber  45' MF 14 Rotan  12' FW 16 Shatskikh MF 20 Husiev DF 27 Vashchuk MF 30 El Kaddouri  119' DF 32 Gavrancic  55' DF 33 Yeshchenko  68' Substitutes: DF 4 Rodolfo  55'  79' MF 8 Bialkevich  12' MF 15 Rincon FW 23 Verpakovskis FW 25 Milevsky  68'  82' DF 26 Nesmachny GK 55 Rybka Manager: Anatoly Demyanenko

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Balko Martin Mokos Tomas Fourth official: V.Grinjak

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Top goal scorers

Brandão Shakhtar Donetsk 15 Emmanuel Okoduwa Arsenal Kyiv 15 Oleksandr Kosyrin Metalurh Donetsk 13 (2) Serhiy Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv 13 (2) Vasyl Sachko Volyn Lutsk 13 (2) Kléber Dynamo Kyiv 11 Matuzalem Shakhtar Donetsk 10 (1) Ara Hakobyan Metalurh Donetsk 10 (3) Diogo Rincón Dynamo Kyiv 10 (4) Serhiy Shyschenko Metalurh Zaporizhya 9 Vasil Gigiadze Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 9 (4)

Managers

Club	Coach	Replaced coach
FC Arsenal Kyiv	Oleksandr Zavarov	Oleksandr Baranov Ihor Babinchuk
FC Chornomorets Odessa	Semen Altman
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleh Protasov	Yevhen Kucherevsky Vadym Tyshchenko
FC Dynamo Kyiv	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Leonid Buryak
FC Volyn Lutsk	Vitaliy Kvartsiany
FC Kharkiv	Hennadiy Lytovchenko
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Oleksandr Kosevych
FC Metalist Kharkiv	Myron Markevych
FC Metalurh Donetsk	Stepan Matviiv	Oleksandr Sevidov
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	Vyacheslav Hrozny	Valeriy Yaremchenko Anatoliy Chantsev
FC Illichivets Mariupol	Ivan Balan
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Mircea Lucescu
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Mykhailo Fomenko	Oleh Fedorchuk
FC Vorskla Poltava	Viktor Nosov
FC Stal Alchevsk	Anatoliy Volobuyev
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	Petro Kushlyk	Viktor Ryashko

Results

Note: home games of each team are shown at the horizontal lines

#	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Shakhtar Donetsk		0:1	2:0	6:0	2:0	2:0	1:1	3:1	2:0	0:0	1:1	1:0	3:0	1:0	2:0	3:0	30	23	6	1	64	14	50	75
2	Dynamo Kyiv	2:2		4:1	1:1	2:2	0:2	2:0	1:1	3:1	0:0	4:0	3:1	1:0	3:1	7:1	4:1	30	23	6	1	68	20	48	75
3	Chornomorets Odessa	0:1	0:1		1:2	5:2	0:0	1:2	0:0	1:0	1:2	2:2	1:1	1:0	2:1	2:0	2:0	30	13	6	11	36	31	5	45
4	Illychivets Mariupol	1:2	1:2	0:1		0:2	0:0	0:1	1:0	1:0	3:2	3:0	3:5	2:1	1:0	1:1	2:0	30	12	7	11	30	34	-4	43
5	Metalist Kharkiv	1:5	1:2	1:1	1:1		0:6	2:0	3:1	2:0	0:1	1:0	1:2	1:0	1:0	1:0	4:1	30	12	7	11	35	42	-7	43
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2:2	0:3	1:2	0:1	0:0		1:3	3:0	1:0	0:0	0:1	1:0	2:0	1:0	0:0	4:0	30	11	10	9	33	23	10	43
7	Tavriya Simferopol	0:3	0:0	1:1	0:1	0:1	0:1		1:0	3:0	2:3	5:2	0:1	2:1	1:0	1:2	1:0	30	11	6	13	29	31	-2	39
8	Metalurh Zaporizhzhya	0:3	1:2	1:0	2:1	0:0	1:0	2:1		3:1	0:2	2:1	2:2	3:6	2:1	0:1	3:0	30	11	6	13	32	40	-8	39
9	Metalurh Donetsk	1:3	0:3	3:2	0:0	3:1	1:1	0:0	0:0		2:0	5:0	2:2	1:1	3:2	4:0	1:0	30	10	9	11	35	35	0	39
10	Vorskla Poltava	0:2	0:4	1:2	1:0	0:1	1:1	2:3	3:1	1:1		1:0	2:0	0:0	0:0	2:0	0:0	30	9	10	11	28	34	-6	37
11	Stal Alchevsk	1:3	1:2	0:1	1:0	1:1	0:0	1:0	1:1	1:1	2:0		1:0	0:0	0:1	2:2	1:0	30	9	9	12	26	39	-13	36
12	Arsenal Kyiv	0:0	0:2	0:1	0:2	1:1	1:0	1:0	1:2	0:2	2:0	1:1		0:0	1:1	2:1	2:1	30	9	8	13	31	39	-8	35
13	FC Kharkiv	2:3	0:3	0:1	3:0	1:0	0:1	0:0	1:0	1:0	2:0	0:1	3:1		1:1	3:2	1:0	30	9	6	15	29	36	-7	33
14	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0:2	0:1	1:0	0:1	2:1	2:2	2:0	1:0	0:1	2:2	2:1	1:2	3:1		2:1	1:0	30	9	6	15	27	35	-8	33
15	Volyn Lutsk	0:1	1:3	0:3	0:0	3:0	2:1	0:0	0:1	1:2	2:1	0:1	2:1	2:0	3:0		3:1	30	9	6	15	31	45	-14	33
16	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	0:3	1:2	2:1	1:1	2:3	1:2	0:1	0:2	0:0	1:1	0:2	2:1	2:1	0:0	1:1		30	3	6	21	17	53	-36	20

See also

• Ukrainian Cup 2005-06

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com - source of information
• ukranianfootball.narod.ru